including spending, saving, and investing. “It’s what we’ve used since beginning our financial independence journey, and it’s worked for us,” Smith says. Many people like zero-based budgeting because it shows them where every dollar is going, which helps them spend more purposefully....
fan_landing=true Jason Pickard became a billion-dollar portfolio manager and partner to hedge fund legend, Paul Tudor Jones, at Tudor Investment. By the age of 26, he was recognized as one of the top 30 traders under 30 years old in the World. Yet his health was on an absolute decline...
We love how close the island is. For us, a short ferry ride, and an even shorter drive from my sister’s house near Long Beach, delivers us to Avalon. And once you get there, you feel transported to another country. The cobblestone streets remind me of Europe and cars are few and f...
Wherever you are visiting, see if a local festival, fair or outdoor concert is taking place. Some favorites include Silver Dollar City’s award-winning Bluegrass & BBQ Festival. Discover many of the nation’s top bluegrass artists at the 1880s-themed Branson, Missouri amusement park and succum...
With only an investment minimum of $10, you can dollar-cost average into private real estate. Since 2016, I have personally invested $954,000 in a couple private real estate funds and individual deals outside of expensive San Francisco, Honolulu, and New York City. ...
We woke up early saturday morning and took a one dollar taxi ride to the animal market. Simon had heard about the animal market from a lady at lunch a few days prior, and he wasn’t gonna miss it. When we got there, we were surrounded by the local Otavalo people who were either ...
I'd bet my bottom dollar that anyone who has the opinion that you're trying too hard and you're forcing it, and the universe is trying to tell you something, those same people would not hesitate for one second if they got cancer and they needed chemotherapy to survive. They would jump...
My daughter is at the age where we’d like to create fun traditions, and I know the Cup of Jo community would be a gold mine. Weekly, annual, mundane, extravagant, I want ALL the ideas.” First, here’s one of ours: Before dinners at restaurants, we always play a game ofUno. We...
“Tabloids make me nauseous!” and from the more dramatic “I’d rather die than follow Taylor Swift’s ‘love’ life!” But even if you distance yourself from the 3 billion dollar tabloid industry, you cannot escape “celebrity.” For in its pure sense, it has only to do with ...
The $100 Dollar Startup by Chris Guilebeau Call to action: Super excited about this call to action… I discovered, thanks to my good friend Brian Shea, that for a few bucks more a month the email marketing application that I use: Called Active Campaign provides an SMS opt-in feature...